what would the chances be for a forum for adult onset allergy/asthma specific questions/concerns?? Sometimes I find that we have specific questions and concerns that don't really fit in anywhere else. To me, it sure would be helpful to have one main place to look up adult onset specific topics.

This forum was developed inthe hopes that it would be helpfull to both parents of children with food allergies and also individuals with adult onset food allergies. This is the reason for the sections Work and Etiquette and Dating.

I'm the first to admit that the parents are the most vocal and the schools section gets a lot of traffic. As a parent myself, it's hard for me to lead the conversations of those who developed their allergies as an adult.

Please feel free to start discussions in any forum or suggest areas in which which could improve. We definately want you to feel welcome and have a sense that this is your forum.

If this is something you are not comfortable with for what ever reason, you might find the Allergic Living page on Facebook is more your style.

Do let us know what we may be missing in terms of issues you'd like to chat about.
We probably wouldn't do adult onset as a thread on its own, due to overlap with above threads.
But there may be another to consider ...

I can appreciate that the parents can be very vocal in many of the threads and we absolutely want those with adult onset allergies to feel free to post. I'm trying to understand the topics as it is not something that I have gone through myself.

In my mind, most of the day to day "living with" allergy topics could be covered by the work, dating, recipes etc forums. The diagnostics and what you go through before you discover that you actually have an allergy might be a forum worth considering.

I think that it's more that it would be nice to have ONE place to look for ADULT specific topics. Rather than to have to hunt around in 6 different pages to find things, but having one forum where those of use with adult onset allergy/asthma can post questions/answers/etc. Just like for the parents - they have the parenting board as a "catch all". For those with school age kids - there is the that board for the "catch all". For the adults there is no "catch all" board for us. For some of us, we don't really fit well into the dating, eating out, etc boards because we are beyond the dating stage, have pretty much given up eating out, and we may not work out of the home (I am a stay at home mom right now).

Please, do consider having an adult onset board for us, just like you have a parenting board! You may be pleasantly surprised at just how much traffic it gets!

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